Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.
ALAN KAYThe tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
More Alan Kay Quotes
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Art also has this element. Our job is to remind us that there are more contexts than the one that we’re in – the one that we think is reality.
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The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.
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I fear – as far as I can tell – that most undergraduate degrees in computer science these days are basically Java vocational training.
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If you’re utopian, you’re never satisfied.
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This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
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Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
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Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.
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That language was Joss, which predated Basic and was beautiful.
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To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.
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In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.
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Most creativity is a transition from one context into another where things are more surprising.
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And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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As far as Apple goes, it was a different company every few years from the time I joined in 1984.
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Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones.
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The greatest single programming language ever designed
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